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Dr. Burbank while a resident of Polo was united in marriage with Miss Martha M. Belding, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride at Rock Creek, Carroll Co., Ill., in January, 1860. Mrs. B. is a native of Bradford County, Pa., whence she removed with her parents in 1854. Of her marriage with our subject there have been born five children, two daughters and three sons, namely: Hattie M., Wilber A., Sophia, who died in October, 1869; Frederick B. and Roy P. Dr. Burbank is connected with the American Homeopathic Institute, the Illinois Medical Society, the Western Academy of Homeopathy, and for a time was Vice President of the State Medical Society. Socially he belongs to M. R. Thompson Lodge, Freeport Commandery, Knights Templar. While a resident of Polo he was a member of the Towns Council, and at whatever place he has made his home he has taken a genuine interest in the encouragement of those enterprises calculated for the best good of the greatest number.
No class of the community stands higher in the confidence and esteem of the people than the faithful members of that profession which has to do with those suffering from accident or disease, and upon whose efforts the question of life or death often depends. As an honored and representative member of the medical profession, we take pleasure in giving on the opposite page a fine lithographic portrait of the subject of this sketch.
Contributed by Carol Parrish
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Dr. James C. Burbank, physician and surgeon of Freeport, located there in 1873, and is now in the enjoyment of an extensive and lucrative practice. His early home was in Warren, Pa., where his birth took place Oct. 12, 1834. His parents, Jacob D. and Sophia (Corbin) Burbank, were natives respectively of Vermont and New Hampshire. The father was a farmer by occupation, and the boyhood and youth of our subject were spent in Pennsylvania, where he received a fair education, and when eighteen years of age entered the office of Dr. D. S. Pratt, where he began the study of medicine. A year later he entered upon a course of lectures in Hahnemann Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1856, and also took a course in the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in March, 1856. He came West the following spring and located at Polo, Ill., where he practiced successfully until 1869, and then removed to Janesville, Wis. From there in 1873 he removed to the city of Freeport, where he established an office and has since remained. He is valued no less as a physician than as a desirable member of society, and is an active promoter and encourager of all enterprises calculated for the benefit of society and general welfare of the people.
